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Directing US COVID-19 testing, caring for Afghan refugees and children at the Southwest border
11th March: 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm GMT
This online seminar, led by Prof Dean Winslow (Stanford, Blackfriars Hall), will explore the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and its relationship to the global refugee crisis. In 2021 he took leave from Stanford to lead the US COVID-19 Testing and Diagnostic Working Group. He also served as CDC Senior Advisor to Operation ALLIES WELCOME and Chief Medical Officer for the Southwest Border Migrant Health Task Force.
Registration is required for this event, all are welcome.
Prof Winslow’s CV is so long that it cannot be covered in full here. He is a Senior Fellow (courtesy) at CISAC/Freeman Spogli Institute. He has served on the Stanford faculty since 1998 and from 2003-2008 as Co-Director of Stanford’s Infectious Diseases Fellowship Training Program. He was in private practice in Wilmington, Delaware where he started the state’s multidisciplinary clinic for HIV patients in 1985. He is a Master of the American College of Physicians, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, and is the author of 96 papers. Colonel Winslow entered the Air National Guard in 1980 and was a Distinguished Graduate of the USAF School of Aerospace Medicine. He deployed to the Middle East six times after 9/11 as a flight surgeon supporting combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. From Jan-April 2003 he was the flight surgeon responsible for combat rescue operations from northern Iraq to Tikrit. He has 3,000 civilian and 1150 military flying hours including 431 combat hours and 263 combat sorties. In 2015, Dr. Winslow and his wife, Dr. Julie Parsonnet, created The Eagle Fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, which provides aid to middle eastern and central American refugees. In 2018 he co-founded Scrubs Addressing the Firearms Epidemic (SAFE), which unites health care professionals to address gun violence in the US as a public health issue and to advocate for education, research, and evidence-backed policy to reduce gun violence.
Contact:
Las Casas Institute
lascasas@bfriars.ox.ac.uk